Just a head's up to you Costco members: They're selling BOTH versions (OT and Prequels) of the absolutely incredible Star Wars Chronicles books for only $90 each (they retail for $150). Great deal if you can get 'em!

We live less than a mile from a Costco and have a membership. I buy propane there (about half the cost for a tank fill) and gas (about $.020-0.25 a gallon less) and maybe shop for food 5-6 times a year. The proximity for the fuel pays for the membership but I don't get too excited by Costco because their hours are too limited and I can't find times when it's not busy and I hate people, by and large. I don't blame them with a $10.00/hr minimum wage for closing registers, but it does cost them my business.

Last time I went to Costco, it was an impulse buy of cheap 5-pack of socks for $6. Time before that it was a 2.5lb bag of M&Ms.

As long as you avoide the impulse buy of a 70" LED TV you should be fine.

Don't waste your time on the 70". It looks tiny when side by side with the 80". I'm hoping the 4K/ultra-HD sets drive the price of that down to around $3000 for Christmas and it will be mine. Then I won't have to venture into movie theaters anymore and that will make me happy because there are too many buffoons in movie theaters playing with their phones and I hate people.